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Author: Anon
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Manuscript on parchment pp 76. Pages tabulated to show the numbers of guns and quantities of stores carried by ships of 12 different sizes. Presented by John Ehrman

Author: Sir E Cecil
Item date: 1626
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 30
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

With an important additional leaf of MS. Purchased with the aid of a contribution of 30 by John Ehrman

Author: Isaac Taylor and other family members
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

13 of the volumes were not previously in BL. Presented by Miss AR Wilson of Ongar

Author: Mark Akenside
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Bound by Richard Montague for Thomas Hollis in gold-tooled green morocco with doublures of mottled calf. No other example of these bindings, which Hollis had put on books he presented to foreign libraries, is known in Britain. 40 was given by Arthur Gimson towards the purchase of the book

Author: Iosepe de Sesse
Item date: 1619
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Arthur Gimson

Author: S. Guglielmo Choul
Item date: 1556
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Text complete, lacking folding plate and two leaves at end. Presented by John R Hetherington

Item date: 1516/17
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Only copyof this edition known and the earliest version then recorded. Printed by P Olivier at Rouen in Gothic Letter with numerous woodcut decorations in the text and musical notation with a red 4-line stave

Author: Sir Robert Cotton
Item date: 1621
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by TS Blakeney. Not in Cottons own hand. Add MS 50198

Item date: 1630
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 20
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham

Embroidered binding including the Arms of Durham Cathedral.

Author: Francisco de Goya
Item date: 1815
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

Original edition 33 plates bound in contemporary Spanish calf. Delteil 224-56